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Yeh, it seemed dodgy to me! I guess the one thing with a kennel is that it is goverened by so many different regulatory bodies as opposed to a family or person who could do anything to Poppy while I was away and I wouldn't know!

I hope this kennel is nice!!! Will pop back in this arvo for an update and to get your opinions again!

The only time i have ever gotten anyone to pay me before they go is once when it was a huge out of town job, i needed the bloody money for fuel, and another client who took 3 months to pay the first time, they know they have to pay up front, or I would look after the pets

My vet does boarding, but it's only really good for very small dogs or sick dogs and short time frames. It's a aircond'd brick garage with a lot of cages in it, and a small lawn that they get to run around on for 20 minutes. I normally exercise Frosty on a cricket oval for an hour, twice a day. So not ideal. She stayed there for a long weekend when she had the runs and I didn't want to ask my sister in law to feed her medicine 3x a day. Frosty did come back with normal poos, was good.

I asked the lovely lady about what would happen to my booking fee and she said it would be deducted from the total. Then I asked what would happen if I didn't feel the sitters were suitable and she said she would find me someone else. Basically you don't get that booking fee back unless you use them! Seemed a bit rich to me!

Anyway, am just back from looking at the kennels. It was a small facility, say 30 to 40 kennels, maybe even less. Was hard to tell.

They owner showed me around. She's an older lady who has been breeding and showing dogs since 1969. She and her hubby run the kennel and only get in staff over the school holidays when they are busy. She said that they prefer to do it themselves as that wY they get to know the dogs and build relationships with them.

She said the bigger dogs usually go out and run in their own yard bit she usually takes the smaller dogs two at a time over to the enclosed grass padock to exercise. She said the little ones prefer that one on one play time and sometimes get startled by the bigger dogs running up and down in their yards.

She also keeps the little dogs closer to her office and the bigger ones further down. As we walked down the kennels I got lots of barks from the doggie and she knew them all by name. She told this adorable sibe x named Riley to shhh in a truly loving way, the same as an owner would.

As I drove out I noticed they had 4 of their own dogs in their house yard. Two that looked like greyhounds but I don't think they were and two other wooly looking ones.

Overall I was really impressed! It was clean, the dogs seemed happy, they had their own beds or they provided beds. She said I could take Poppys crate and pop it in there and take a toy or two. She also told me about what they fed them and said I was welcome to bring her dry food if I wanted.

Am still a bit nervous about how she will cope after her last stay away from us bit I'm confident in the owners ability to recognize stress in Poppy and do what is needed if anything!